Fintel v. Cook
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court of Waukesha County. This action was commenced in a justice’s court, and the plaintiffs made therein an oral complaint to the effect that June 7, 1892, the plaintiffs sold and delivered to the defendant, at his instance, one Stark force-drop corn planter, of the value and for the agreed price of $45, which corn planter the defendant received and used and continued to keep, but had never paid for any part of it though several times demanded; and…
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APPEAL from the County Court of Waukesha County. This action was commenced in a justice’s court, and the plaintiffs made therein an oral complaint to the effect that June 7, 1892, the plaintiffs sold and delivered to the defendant, at his instance, one Stark force-drop corn planter, of the value and for the agreed price of $45, which corn planter the defendant received and used and continued to keep, but had never paid for any part of it though several times demanded; and demanded judgment for the amount named, with costs. The defendant answered 'by way of a general denial, and alleged, in…
1Opinion of the CourtOassoday, J.
It appears from the evidence, pretty clearly, that dune 8, 1S9Ü, the defendant was attending court as a juryman; that his farm at the time was beiDg worked by his two minor sons; that on that day the sons made a contract for the purchase of the machine for the price named, conditioned upon its doing good work; that one of the sons thereupon went and got the machine, and commenced using the same, planting corn on the defendant’s farm; that when the son got the machine one of the plaintiffs went with him, and started the machine, and planted between half an acre and an acre, and that it did the…
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